Letter-carrier&#39;s bag.



No. 633,884. Patented Sept. 26, I899.

M. McCARTHY.

LETTER CABBIERS BAG.

[Application filed Jul. 13, 1899.]

(No Model.)

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LETTER-CARRIERS BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,884, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed January 18,1899. stun No. 702,501. (No model.)

To all whmn it; may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL MGCARTHY,

of Boston, (Roxbury,) in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved'Letter-Oarriers Bag, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a means by which letter-carrier's'may stow in their boxes or satchels the letters of their routes in such a way that the letters may be and to avoid the use of twine in tying up the bundles of letters, as is generally done, and also to save time in the delivery of the mail.

To this end I provide the usual letter-carriers bag or Satchel with a box or holder fitted in one end of the bag and having flaps at its front side, which may beconnected or disconnected to permit placing and displac-' ing the letters which are to be stacked in the box or holder.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define the actual scopethereof.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe views.

Figure 1 isa perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken hori- 'zontally on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 .is a sectional view taken vertically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of a modified form of the invention.

Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show the invention applied to an ordinary letter-carriers bag, in

doing whichone end of the bag is removed.

holder is set into the same and The holder and a box or secured by lines of stitching a; is rectangular in form, so that (see Fig. 3) may be superimposed therein. The outer or front wall of the holder is formed of two flaps c, which are provided with releasable fastening devices d,run nin g throughout the vertical extent of the box or holder and providing means by which the front wall may be entirely closed or opened one fastener at a time, so that the letter-carrier may veniently reach the letters as the stack in the box or holder diminishes in height. The flap e of the bag partly covers the box or the letters 1)- conholder, and the other part of the box may be left uncovered or provided with a hood for its closure, as desired.

The letters of the carriers route should be packed in the box or holder, as shown in Fig.

3, so that the first letter of the route will be on top and the others in the proper succession,

thus enabling the carrier to readily take the letters from the bag. The other part of the bag may be made to carry newspapers and. other bulky matter.

, slinging it over the shoulder of the letter-carrier.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A mail=carrier,consisting in a verticallyelongated box or holder open at the top and having an angular cross-section, the box be ing adapted to have the letters superimposed therein so that the letters may be taken out from the top of the box or holder, one wall of the box or holder being formed of verticallyextending flaps, and fastening devices carried on the adjacent edges of the flaps to secure the flaps together, such fastening devices being independently operative so that the flaps may be opened at any point along the length of the box.

the flaps 13 joined by fas- 2. A letter-carriers ba fhaving a ba 7 proper provided with a flap forming the cover of the bag proper, a box or holder, the upper end of which is open, the box or holder being secured in one end of the bag proper, to form the end wall thereof, and'the box or holder being partly covered by the flap of the bag, the outer wall of the box or holder being formed of two vertically-extending flaps, and

fastening devices on the contiguous edges of the flaps to join the flaps to each other, the

fastening devices beingindependentiy operi holder having an open upper end partly ative' to permit opening the box or holder at closed by the seid fla p, and being capable of 10 i any point along its length. carrying letters snperimposetl in the box or V 3. A letter-earriers bag, having a bag holder.

5 propmge flap eb'the top of the bag proper and forming the closure, thereof, and a, box Witnesses: V or holder secured in one end of the bag proper THOMAS H. :HABNEY, and forming the end wall thereof, the box or THOMAS H. LIBB EY.

MICHAEL MCCARTHY. 

